Defense Market Intelligence
Data-driven US defense market intelligence on contractors, contract awards, active solicitations, military platforms and the suppliers beneath them. We connect procurement activity with CAGE-coded facilities, subcontract relationships and NSN-level component flow to show where value, capacity and opportunity actually sit.
Mimir analysis turns those connected records into evidence-led market signals, supply-chain studies and industrial-base assessments across aerospace, maritime, land, missile, space and sustainment markets.
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Defense Company & CAGE Code Lookup
Explore customer mix, platform exposure, components, awards, prime customers and subcontractors.
NSN & NIIN Lookup
Explore item identity, approved sources, supplier depth, platform associations and recent procurement activity.
Market Signals
Short, data-backed reads on market movement, supplier overlap, capacity pressure, and program execution risk.
Lockheed Martin Grand Prairie: the missile portfolio behind the new machining expansion
Mimir maps the missile portfolio, first-tier supplier network and external machining base around Lockheed Martin's $300M Grand Prairie expansion.
Safran's Grand Prairie engine site: from target drones to the Naval Strike Missile
Mimir traces the Grand Prairie operation's defense customer routes, 208 associated parts and expansion into U.S.-based Naval Strike Missile propulsion assembly.
Who supplies SM-3 Block IB? Inside Raytheon's new $6.3 billion production contract
Mimir maps 147 first-tier supplier sites and the concentrated supplier network beneath preceding SM-3 Block IB interceptor contracts.
Who supplies U.S. torpedo acoustic arrays? Inside the Navy's production ramp
Mimir maps Ultra Maritime's role across MK 48, MK 54 and MK 58 and the precision-machining, tungsten, acoustic-isolation and electronics suppliers beneath MK 54 array production.
Who supplies the Black Hawk? Where the next production cycle matters most
Mimir maps 186 first-tier supplier sites beneath Sikorsky and identifies where Black Hawk represents the largest share of observed defense subcontract activity.
Who supplies the MQ-25? Inside the Navy's first production lot
Mimir maps 234 first-tier supplier sites and the specialist operations positioned beneath Boeing as MQ-25 enters low-rate production.
Who supplies the B-52's new radar? Raytheon moves from subcontractor to prime
Mimir maps the development supplier footprint as Raytheon moves to a direct Air Force contract for APQ-188 radar production and sustainment.
Who supplies the M1156 Precision Guidance Kit?
Mimir maps the power, guidance, control and protective-component suppliers beneath the preceding PGK production contract.
Who supplies CIRCM? Inside the Army's $4.8 billion helicopter-protection contract
Mimir maps the specialist laser, pointer-tracker and processing suppliers beneath Northrop Grumman's preceding CIRCM awards.
The defense programs behind the $450 million Elmet investment
Mimir maps Elmet and former H.C. Starck subcontract records to missile defense, military-space and strategic-weapons programs.
The first high-energy laser production contract - and what comes next
Mimir maps 105 first-tier supplier sites across earlier U.S. high-energy-laser work as the Army moves E-HEL into production.
Who supplies Next Gen OPIR? Inside the Space Force's missile-warning supply chain
Mimir compares 411 first-tier Next Gen OPIR supplier sites with the FY2021-FY2025 SBIRS footprint and identifies 84 sites visible on both programs.
The JLTV prime changed. What happened to the supplier base?
Mimir maps the first-tier JLTV supplier transition from Oshkosh Defense to AM General and shows where the established network retained most visible subcontract value.
The supplier base behind 1,000 Tomahawks a year
Mimir maps 176 first-tier supplier sites beneath the Tomahawk production ramp and shows how the largest positions connect to other priority missile programs.
The production restart of Chemring Alloy Surfaces
Mimir traces the demand decline behind Alloy Surfaces' closure and the linked awards now supporting the return of its pyrophoric infrared decoy production.
Two XM30 finalists. Two largely separate prototype supplier bases.
Mimir maps 85 first-tier supplier sites beneath the two remaining XM30 teams. Only four appeared in records under both.
The CH-53K supply chain: supplier concentration and contract economics
Mimir maps approximately $2.6B in net reported CH-53K subcontract value and examines the contract economics beneath Sikorsky's five-year production award.
JASSM and LRASM production could triple
Mimir maps the specialist propulsion, sensor, warhead, composite and navigation suppliers positioned beneath the planned JASSM and LRASM production increase.
Thematic Analysis & Reports
Virginia Class vs. PAC-3 MSE: Structural Divergence
The FY27 budget increase is not uniform. We contrast the locked, capacity-bound ecosystem of naval shipbuilding with the expanding, network-driven ecosystem of munitions.
The $1.5 Trillion Question: FY27 Defense Budget
Analyze the industrial footprint of the historic $1.5T FY27 defense budget. We compare supply chain consolidation and execution bottlenecks between Naval Shipbuilding and Missiles & Munitions.
F-35 Supplier Value Distribution
See how contract value actually flows through the F-35 supply chain. Explore prime-to-sub relationships, hidden supplier positioning, and structural concentration.
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